Beyond the Flatlands
Leonie Sandercock, Giovanni Attili (Eds.)
PART I
ETHNOGRAPHY, EPISTEMOLOGY, HISTORY
1 Film Works Wonders: Analysis, History and Town Plan United in a Single Representation
by Leonardo Ciacci
2 From the Campfire to the Computer: An Epistemology of Multiplicity and the Story Turn in Planning
by Leonie Sandercock
3 Beyond the Flatlands: Digital Ethnographies in the Planning Field
by Giovanni Attili
PART II
CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES
4 Mobilizing the Human Spirit: An Experiment in Film as Social Research, Community Engagement and Policy Dialogue
by Leonie Sandercock
5 (Re)Presenting the Street: Video and Visual Culture in Planning
by Elihu Rubin
6 Digital Media and the Politics of Disaster Recovery in New Orleans
by Jacob A. Wagner
7 Social Justice and Video: Imagining as a Right in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
by Jessica Hallenbeck
8 “The Beginning of Something”: Using Video as a Tool in Community Engagement
by Wendy Sarkissian
9 “La Campagna che si fa Metropoli”: Film as Discovery
by Leonardo Ciacci
10 Representations of an Unsettled City: Hypermedial Landscapes in Rome
by Giovanni Attili
11 Seeing and Being Seen: The Potential of Multimedia as a Reflexive Planning Methodology
by Penny Gurstein
PART III
TEACHING WITH/THROUGH MULTIMEDIA IN PLANNING AND DESIGN
12 Participatory Design and Howard Roark: The Story of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center
by Sheri Blake
13 Learning as an Aesthetic Experience: Digital Pedagogies in Planning Didactics
by Lidia Decandia
14 Cinema and the “City of the Mind”: Using Motion Pictures to Explore Human-Environment Transactions in Planning Education
by Michael Dudley
15 Stinging Real! Four Essays on the Transformative Power of Films and Storytelling in Planning Education
by Andrew Isserman, Anuttama Dasgupta, Susy Hemphill, and Mallory Rahe
16 Conclusions
by Leonie Sandercock and Giovanni Attili